History is as important to Law as the Law itself.
Men often talk about women’s rights. It’s fashionable. So do I. In 'Pretty Ones' you will find history for equal rights for women in law courts.
One day, when I was talking about women rights, my wife innocently asked me,
‘You merely talk. But do you believe in it? My father practised it. When he came back from Harvard Medical School in 1963; he left his 28 year old wife in Toronto to do her Post Doctoral studies. Will you ever do the same?’
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| My Parents - 1958 |
Not to be outdone I answered,
'My parents married in 1939 when my mother was 17 years and father was 20 years old. They lived for a year in Lucknow, where my father obtained his post graduate and law degree and my mother passed her Intermediate. In 1940, my father started practice at Banda and at the same time, he permitted his 18 year old wife, married a year ago, to live in a hostel, to obtain her undergraduate and then law degree from Benaras Hindu University (BHU). At that time, there was no direct train to Benaras from Banda and one has to change twice—at Manikpur and Allahabad—to reach Benaras.
Their eldest child, my sister, was born after my mother finished her law degree in 1944. I understand that she was first lady law graduate from BHU.'The result is that my wife has been abroad many times in connection with her studies and has taught for some years in US and Canada but I could go abroad only after I became a judge.
Aren’t they clever?
IT LIES IN THE HEART
(These articles were written before I was elevated as the High Court
judge on 5th February 1999 and were also published. Since then they have
been updated.)
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